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REVOLT IN SAN MARCOS (433 pp.)-Robert Carver North-Houghton M/'f-flin...
Died. Tom Creighton, 75, co-discoverer of the fabulously rich Canadian Flin Flon mine; after long illness; in Flin Flon, Man. Creighton (and five others) stumbled on the Manitoba lode in 1915, named it after a fictional explorer in a British pulp-magazine thriller. The partners sold out (Creighton got $100,000) and the new owners began digging in 1925, spent $27 million before Flin Flon started paying off ($250 million worth) in gold, copper, silver and zinc...
...almost everywhere. For the more discriminating, there is the smelly but mild-tasting Oka made by Trappist monks near Montreal. Alberta offers the value-seeker a platter-filling Gold Medal Ranch steak for $1. And for those who go to Canada for unusual foods and not the scenery, a Flin Flon café can rustle up a gamy beavertail soup, and a Val d'Or café can do wonders with bear paws...
From a hotel in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, to catch a train for Flin Flon, Manitoba, rushed a salesman with coat flying, bag in one hand, hotel water jug in the other. Accused of stealing the crockery, he cried: "I know, but my teeth are frozen in this durn...
...from the mining camps of California who quit a good brokerage house job in Manhattan to head for the Klondike. By his account he has won and lost eleven fortunes. He was among the first in the great Cobalt silver rush, but his first big money came from the Flin Flon, which he sold to the late Harry Payne Whitney. Since then he has had a hand in Pickle Crow and Red Lake. At 60, he still prospects by plane, summer and winter, is sometimes called "the gentleman adventurer of the mining world," sometimes "Crack-the-North- Open" Hammell...